Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-13
CROOKS ARE KEPT MOVING.
PickpOckets and Bunko Men are Hus-
tied Along by the New York Police.


St. Louis Republican, It Is one OF the
boasts of the New York detectives that
they are personally acquainted with all
the professional criminals in the near
towns. The results of this acquaintance
are often peculiar. You are talking with
Detective Prior few feet from the door
of the Fifth avenue hotel, and he sees o
young dandy halt few feet away.
Better keep right on" he says to the
dandy; hurry up, now.'
'Oh, good morning." says the dandy.
Pm only going to set my watch.'
That is Kid Miller, chief of the bunco
men, and the detective will not allow him
to stop in front of the hotel. You are
pushing your way into Macy's shopping
store, and little ladyhke body is just
ahead of you. Suddenly some one steps
up to her and roughly orders her to
Get out at once"
" was only going to match piece Of
silk"
She lies. She is shoplftsr, and the
man who ordered her out is detective.
Perhaps you are at the Arion bail with
its 5000 dancers and lockers on. You
walk in the lobby near the entrance for a
breath of air and meet Captain Williams,
in uniform, alert and handsome as an
eagle. He darts from your side and
",
man so as to oppose his progress,
What do you mean by coming here9"
The man answers boldly: "My wife is
here, tand l have come to take ber
home"
"That'll do now," says the captain;
there's the door; get!' And, as Arte-
mus Ward used to say, "He gets.' The
man Is a pickpocket.
A neatly dressed, rather substantial
Ia b, .f Ill l.,
card to Inspector Byrnes at police head.
quarters. The name on the card is that
of a burglar better known by an alias, say
Red Leary," for instance.
Well, what do you want?" Mr.. Byrnes
asks, grufiiy. He has an especial tone
for men of that class, and it is u tone that
forbids familiarity and suggests mastery,
a very different tone from the quiet and
easy one for his friends.
IL would like to be in Wall street for
fifteen inmates to- morrow, Inspector ~
says the burglar. "I want to see about
personal matter"
III will have one of my corps meet you
at Broad and Wall at noon, sharp" says
Byrnes.
The burglar thanked the official, for it
is favor to such a man even to be al
lowed to 60 to the money center with q
detective at his shoulder all the time he
Is tueTe, IL 20 WITHOUT tHiS perIllSslOu
and escort means certainty of being
arrested and locked up. The only known
crooks that get into Wall street under
Byrnes are men in business there whose
ofenses he cannot punish; the only
others are the employees who default now
and then.
This is not the only part of town that
shady characters are excluded from. 1t
has always been a favorite method with
Captain Williams to say to rascals
of various sorts: IF you ever put your
foot in my precinct III send you up"
This may not be according to law, but its
according to fact, and they glye that pre-
cinct wide berth. Pickpockets like the
Allen brothers, who are well known, have
hard time of it in New York. No mat
ter how much they may want to see a
play or Il ball game, or attend q meeting,
there is apt to be some one to stop them
at the entrance with fright about face,
now. You can't get in here" 1 have
seen a .pickpocket hustled along like a
bit of down in the wind from one block
to another, while apparently an innocent
spectator of q street parade.